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🗓️ 11 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Are you traveling for free or are you leaving money on the table? In today's episode, we're joined by |
0:06.1 | Brian Kelly, the points guy, the ultimate authority on point hacking to make sure you are traveling |
0:12.2 | for $0 this year. Let's find out if you're missing out. And just for fun, I was on a plane the other |
0:18.9 | day. I saw the points guy right there on the side of the plane. I was so excited. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy, and with me as always is my finally starting to earn credit cards rewards points co-host, Scott Trench. Thanks, Mindy. I'm really looking forward to redeeming myself with this podcast here. |
0:44.6 | Bigger Pockets has a goal of creating one million millionaires. You're in the right place if you want to get your financial house in order because we truly believe financial freedom is attainable for everyone. |
0:55.1 | No matter when or where you're starting or how bad you've been with credit card point usage like me with 600, I think it's 750,000 to a million points that have got unused for 10 years despite doing this for a living. All right. With that, Ryan, the points guy, we are super excited to have you on |
0:59.7 | Bigger Pockets Money today. Can you teach us and me a little bit about this subject today? |
1:03.6 | Well, first of all, this is now an intervention because you're what I call a points hoarder. |
1:08.0 | So this is a alert to everyone who does like you. You should use your |
1:12.3 | points. It is financial malpractice to hoard points because they lose value over time. But that's a |
1:18.5 | more advanced topic. But no, I'm super excited to share today. Everyone should be playing the points game. |
1:23.6 | Even if you don't want to travel, the industry has evolved so much. It's ultra lucrative. |
1:29.3 | So if you're not paying attention to points, hear me clearly, you are throwing cash in a |
1:35.5 | trash can. So hopefully this episode will help you get on the right track. |
1:40.1 | What's better place to start, Brian? Should we start with if you have amassed a bunch of points, |
1:44.3 | because you signed up for one of these things 10 years ago after talking to some, you know, |
1:47.9 | superstar expert on travel rewards and you never did anything with them, how do you begin |
1:51.7 | use them? Or should we start with what's a baseline strategy for someone starting from zero, |
1:55.2 | which is probably more common? Yeah, well, let's hook people, like I bet a lot of your listeners have a lot of points. |
2:01.1 | And the answer is really easy. |
2:02.7 | So over the last four years, there has been a proliferation of technology, these paid tools, |
2:09.3 | which will actually tell you exactly how to use your points yourself. |
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